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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

More than 1,300 arrested in anti-war protests across Russia

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Teenagers and journalists were among the hundreds of people detained by Russian police as Vladimir Putin’s move to enlist civilians for his war in Ukraine sparked the country’s first mass protests in months.

Some 1,386 people were arrested by Russian authorities as demonstrations broke out in dozens of cities across the country, according to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info – as crowds in Moscow chanted: “Send Putin to the trenches.”

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